This deliverable presents the results of two years of work on mapping the current IT-set up in CHARM and discussing our joint future vision with the main stakeholder groups. It describes how we applied the Higher Education Reference Model (HERM) to generate a shared understanding of the IT support of our CHARM Master’s programme “Global Challenges for Sustainability”. [.....] This eventually led to the formulation of a checklist with a number of considerations to keep in mind during decision making processes about IT Architecture.